Letter From The Editors: Early April Fools

Letter From The Editors: Early April Fools

This week’s issue is the product of a fantastic process. Like all our schoolwork, we got it done on time (we didn’t even procrastinate on April Fools’!) withoutsacrificing sleep or well-being to get it made.

In this week’s lead, we investigate the inner workings of the World Shadow Government. After months of tireless reporting, Eye contributor David Icke confidently confirms that Lizard People are, in fact, real. All his evidence may be circumstantial/fabricated, but that doesn’t make the claims any less real.

We also have a podcast called The Tongue that looks at that one time Trump sent a carrier pigeon to The Federalist.

In her investigative feature, new Eye writer Caity Weaver investigates the Legends of the Mediterranean. In exclusive interviews with notjust Odysseus, but also Aeneas, she closely considers whether or not the Trojan Horse deserved to be as iconic as it ended up being.

Finally, we invite Moana actress Auli'i Cravalho to write about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, his tattoos, and whether or not they actually move in real life. (They do.)

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We hope you have a great week and know that not a word in this letter has been true. (Except the bit where we hope you have a great week. We love you, Grandma, don’t worry.)

Jokes aside, Alex McNab has written a poignant piece about what it’s like to be a black student at Columbia—black at a heavily white institution, bordering a heavily black neighborhood. He pulls apart the diversity of the black student experience.